Heavy rain has been falling throughout the day and is expected to continue into this evening causing some flooding across the region.

Officers have been deployed to manage traffic in some of the worst affected areas and help clear some of the region’s major spine roads.

Two major roads are currently closed due to large amounts of standing water and diversions are in place.

They include closures of the A19 between the Testos roundabout and Hedworth Lane in Boldon Colliery and the Westbound carriageway of Durham Road between Burdon Lane and the Houghton Cut in Houghton-Le-Spring